Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of current output of the UK marine economy (1) by country, and (2) by sector.

The full output of the marine economy, and split by sector and country, is unknown due to the complexity of attributing economic output to the marine environment.

However, for human activities that use UK seas, the latest data (2015) from the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science estimated the sector contributed around £27 billion to UK Gross Value Added (GVA) and employed 341,000 people. The Office for National Statistics reports that the UK marine natural capital assets, for which we can estimate a value, had an asset value of £211 billion in 2021.

For the wild-catch fishing sector, the Marine Management Organisation provides the split by country for 2023 as follows:

Wild-catch - landings by vessel nationality: